Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A book used in schools or colleges for the formal study of a subject.
- adjective Being a characteristic example of its kind; classic.
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- noun A
coursebook , a formalmanual ofinstruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges. - adjective Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being
dry andpedagogical ;textbooky ,textbooklike . - adjective Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an
example in a textbook.
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Examples
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This textbook is arranged in 15 lessons that promise to teach the reader “the foundations of visual storytelling”.
*Drawing Words & Writing Pictures — Best of 2008 » Comics Worth Reading 2009
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"John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls textbook plagiarism in the leggy blond pundit's Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.
Pair of Tweezers Caught Plagiarizing: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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* More than half of the bundled textbooks surveyed (55 percent) were not available for students to purchase a la carte, in which the textbook is available without the add-on materials.
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Being schooled in scientific practice, they believe that in dealing with prayer as a phenomenon they should scrupulously follow the formulas outlined in the Bible which they described as the textbook of spiritual science.
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980
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"Did you ever read what they call their textbook, 'Science and Health?'"
The Pastor's Son William W. Walter
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Archdiocese spokesman Joe Zwilling said Dolan acknowledged the victims in the letter, which he called a textbook example of how to deal with a priest-abuser.
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Archdiocese spokesman Joe Zwilling said Dolan acknowledged the victims in the letter, which he called a textbook example of how to deal with a priest-abuser.
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Readers today have been conditioned to believe that a writer cribbing off his/her textbook is capturing the same animal once known as creativity.
How to (erm) Write the Modern Speculative Short Story marshallpayne1 2010
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Ray Pierrehumbert's excellent textbook is free online.
Hansen: Obama has only four years to save the world - NASA Watch 2009
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Or because he had read an old textbook from the 50s, possibly.
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